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Litsy, there are times I eat with family and for the 1 1/2 hrs I am with them it‘s pure torture, so I can only imagine what 9 days in a Tuscan villa with 6 dysfunctional family members feels like for Anna. A nagging mother who wants stuff to happen so she can be a mother. An emotionally absent brick wall of a dad. A clingy twin who can‘t take responsibility for his choices. A sister so insecure, who just comes off so hateful and jealous. 👇🏼

I liked The Ten Thousand Doors of January so much more than I liked this book. I did the audio version. I had a very hard time following it. I did like the setting, a creepy old house. I didn‘t care for any of the characters. I had a hard time understanding the relationship between Opal and Arthur. This book was just so-so.

in this book there is a boy named Cameron who is currently living with his mother, they have to keep moving because they are on the run from his dad. They move to a place called Wolf hallow, the house they are at is very creepy and he thinks its haunted. they have neighbor who owns the land that they are staying on but Cameron seems to feel scared of him because he feels off

This novel is set in upstate New York. The characters are quite interesting & mostly well liked. Holly is a struggling playwright. Holly, her girlfriend Nisa, and two other friends travel to the Mansion outside a small village. The house appears to be haunted with a reputation of someone from each group of renters going missing. The author adds an edge of fairies into the mix adding a magical element to the novel. 4/5

Ah, what an evocative, haunting book. A fable, a horror, a true story? Maybe all three, in one way or another. A winding tale of dreams made real, and the nightmares that drive us through life. It‘s difficult to describe, tbh, as the story is unsettled and unsettling, defies genre, and navigates a tangled labyrinth of plot and emotion. Alix Harrow has a remarkable talent for weaving a world, and this is no exception. Stellar read.

An ok book - but a lot of this authors books are just plain weird 🤨🧐 I was hoping for… more 😔

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3.5/5

Starting off the year, it seems, with books I REALLY wanted to read immediately upon purchasing, but still didn‘t for whatever reason…I‘ve loved Alix Harrow‘s other work, so am looking forward to this read. Pictured with bonus cat!

I loved this! I‘m a huge Josh Malerman fan and I think I definitely liked this one as much as Bird Box and Malorie. The 8yr old protagonist Bela is a great narrator. She‘s extremely perceptive about what‘s happening even as her young age means she doesn‘t always understand. This is a super creepy story, with a lot to say about the weight of secrets and how we can‘t run from them. A slow burn, then very intense! With an open ending.

First read of 2025 done! This is horror about a woman determined to stay in her dream home that‘s haunted, even when her husband goes missing and her adult daughter unaware of the hauntings comes to visit. This started out strong, but petered off when the haunted house as a metaphor got really heavy handed, and it felt like the author was worried I wouldn‘t Get It. I think I wanted this to lean into the campier aspects more than it did. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I had a lot of fun with the 2024 book bracket! Thank you to @catsandbooks for the template! 🎉 #bookbracket #2024bookbracket